A year ago, the New York Post reported that Icon Realty had begun demolishing several tenements on Second Avenue between East 80th and 81st streets. Now, the developer has filed new building applications for a 30-story tower on the corner site, which will be known as 301 East 80th Street.

Six pre-war apartment buildings bit the dust to make way for the 438-foot-tall development, which will hold only 63 apartments, spread across 199,600 square feet of residential space. With an average unit of 3,168 square feet, condos seem very likely. An 8,945-square-foot retail space would fill the ground floor, followed by one to four units apiece on each of the upper floors.

A host of amenities would occupy the cellar floors, including a basketball court, yoga room, gym, children’s play room, game room, and lounge.

SLCE Architects applied for the permits.

Icon paid $44.8 million for the East 80th Street assemblage, plus an extra $3 million for air rights. The firm is also planning a 14-story, 12-unit building on the next block, at 1562 Second Avenue.

Icon Realty's Two Upper East Side Towers Begin Climb Above Second Avenue

Quote:

The southern site at 301 East 80th Street, also known as 1538 Second Avenue, will give way to a 30-floor, 72-unit condominium rising nearly 400 feet tall. One block north, a smaller tower at 301 East 81st Street (1562 Second Avenue) will rise 19 floors and have 28 condos inside.

Quote:

The long wait for the Second Avenue Subway is finally over and developers are moving into high-gear to reap rewards along the line’s once-remote Upper East Side blocks. One of the most bullish developers to surface is Icon Realty Management who is moving full steam on not one, but two high-end condo towers on Second Avenue in the low 80s.

Icon, led by Terrence Lowenberg and Todd Cohen, submitted plans to the city for a pair of towers several years ago but have yet to fully reveal what exactly is in store. But now with construction permits fully approved, zoning diagrams have been made public showing us the scale and massing of the towers. The diagrams are also posted on-site where the taller building at 301 East 80th Street just reached street level and its shorter sister at 301 East 81st Street is about ten floors up.